Cotterill turns feminist sensitivity toward silenced voices to look afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden. Anne Cotterill examines richly digressive speakers who carve literary mazes through a dangerous world for psychological, political, and poetic survival--and attack.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Breathless: Digression and Survival in 1 Henry VI
- 2: 'Motion in Corruption': Digression and Descent in Donne's Anniversaries
- 3: Marvell's Watery Maze: Digression and Discovery at Nun Appleton
- 4: Sounding 'Wisdom's Way': Digression and Delay in Paradise Lost
- 5: Parenthesis at the Center: Digression and Mystery in The Hind and the Panther
- 6: The Devious Progress of Satire: Digression and Vengeance in Dryden's Late Preface
- 7: Dislocation, Dipossession, and the Voice Come Home: An Epilogue on the 'Modern' Digression
- Bibliography
- Index